Altertox creates a new serie of Podcast for EUROTOX in vitro and in silico specialty section.
ONTOX young scientist Eliska Kuchovska from IUF – Leibniz Research Institute for Environmental Medicine explains the world of developmental neurotoxicology in the first episode of the new podcast series.
In this episode we learn about the difficulties of studying the effect of chemicals on brain development and why quantitative adverse outcome pathways and physiological maps can help.
Harm Heusinkveld, neurotoxicologist at the RIVM, the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment, shares with us his in-depth knowledge of neurological disorders. In this episode, we discuss how toxicologists discovered that chemicals can affect the brain and why we still struggle to implement effective regulations reducing the risks associated with our exposure to neurotoxic chemicals.